Amazing sensory walls are fun and interactive experiences that help students manage and explore their feelings. After creating the space at our school, I wanted to share insights from my journey. Our school just lost our Title 1 funding and had to get creative with our budgets.  Here are four things that I have learned. Get Creative With The Space Our school was growing, so we had to think ... Read More about How to Build An Amazing Sensory Wall for Elementary Schools

See Think Wonder is a visual thinking strategy used in arts integration. Arts integration is an impactful way to teach content to students. It allows me t teach students how to use art to create, reflect on knowledge, and connect with their areas of interest. If you are new to arts integration, or you have been using arts integration for a long time, there are some tools that are just tried and ... Read More about Using See, Think, Wonder Strategy In The Classroom

Being a first year teacher can be both exciting and scary! I have been in education for a long time…more than 10 years, but less than 20. Some where years of extreme stress where I felt that I barely had a moment to breathe. Thankfully, most were years of comfort mixed with ebbs and flows of great, good, ok, and bad days…days of most jobs. With that said, the years of Covid 19 brought on more ... Read More about Advice to a First Year Teacher

Arts integration has had such a profound impact on the way I support students. It has been m Here are five of the most important ways that arts integration has impacted my counseling lessons. 1 . My core curriculum  lessons became more fun to teach. When I first started working as a school counselor, I would read a book and then print out a worksheet for them to work on. I did not know how ... Read More about 5 Ways The Arts Impact School Counseling

Arts Integration has been around for a while, but somehow it still seems a bit overwhelming to use in school counseling classroom lessons. As counselors, we may be creative and love doing art  projects,  but  we are not experts in visual arts, drama, dance, or music. This causes our lessons to contain little more than drawing and coloring  activities with a splash of playdough ... Read More about Four Visual Artists to Start Using for Easy Arts Integration and SEL School Counseling Lessons

One of the best things about our jobs as school counselors is that we are able to do fun and interactive core curriculum lessons. We get to see students in their classroom environment, share in their excitement to see us, and gain some meaningful insight about their ability to interact with their peers. Our hope as school counselors is to create not only informative lessons, but also engaging ... Read More about 5 Reasons K-5 Students Are Not Engaging in Your School Counseling Lessons

Calm Corners are an amazing resource to use in your classroom. If used correctly the can be an amazing support for students. They help students self regulate, provide a space to wind down, and fulfill sensory processing needs. Sometimes it can feel overwhelming to set them up and sometimes students can misuse them as a space to check out and avoid instruction. Here are some ways to make sure your ... Read More about 6 Things To Make Calm Down Corners Successful In The Classroom

I love arts integration! It has made teaching so much more fun... and students are so much more engaged in my lessons. Using dance, drama, music, and visual arts in content areas allows students to create while they learn, which is the highest level of Bloom's. With that said, starting to implement arts integration can be a bit intimidating at first. Most of us are experts in our classroom ... Read More about Four Ways to Integrate The Arts Into ELA Content